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+5Sami Heikkinen Grégoire Meier Miqe Erikzen Peeter Põldsam Graeme Skinner 9 posters |
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Graeme Skinner
Snakemaster
Number of posts : 466
Age : 63
Location : Yorkshire, England
Points : 6408
Registration date : 2009-02-19
| Subject: Vipera berus 2009  Sun 22 Feb - 1:51 | |
| In England the males are out and about, today the weather was great 10C and sunny so three site I found 8 animals. This was the nicest image of the day as I was mainly doing HD video  I will upload the video to youtube tomorrow place a link of as the video is real nice!!! | |
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Peeter Põldsam
Snakekeeper
Number of posts : 65
Age : 61
Location : Estonia
Points : 5881
Registration date : 2009-02-16
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Sun 22 Feb - 3:15 | |
| Oh, and I have to wait at least couple of weeks or even month to see a viper.... It is about -10C out there tonight. | |
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Miqe Erikzen
Snakecharmer
Number of posts : 204
Age : 58
Location : Knutby, Sweden
Points : 5979
Registration date : 2008-12-02
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Mon 23 Feb - 3:44 | |
| And I have the same as Peeter. Today it came about 3 - 4 inches of snow too.. | |
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Graeme Skinner
Snakemaster
Number of posts : 466
Age : 63
Location : Yorkshire, England
Points : 6408
Registration date : 2009-02-19
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Mon 23 Feb - 4:35 | |
| - Miqe Erikzen wrote:
- And I have the same as Peeter. Today it came about 3 - 4 inches of snow too..
In UK we have seriously mixed up weather!! Still I look forward to Estonian herping in may? | |
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Grégoire Meier
Snakecharmer
Number of posts : 136
Age : 48
Location : Ticino, Suisse
Points : 5974
Registration date : 2008-11-27
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Mon 23 Feb - 16:59 | |
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Sami Heikkinen
Snakecharmer
Number of posts : 173
Age : 41
Location : Finland
Points : 6037
Registration date : 2008-11-04
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Mon 23 Feb - 22:38 | |
| Great to see that somewhere the vipers are waking up! I hate to live here up north and always wait the vipers come out from their hibernation "nests".. Perhaps I'll go outside at the end of next month  Sami | |
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Rainer Fesser
Systematicus
Number of posts : 565
Age : 74
Location : Austria
Points : 6698
Registration date : 2008-03-13
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Tue 24 Feb - 4:17 | |
| Even here in the "south" - I live in southeastern Austria, close to the Slovenian border - there are no reptiles out at the moment. About 2m of snow on most V. berus habitat, V. ammodytes will come out in 5 - 6 weeks if spring will be normal.
So, Sami, don´t mind too much about living in the north.
Best regards,
Rainer | |
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Harold van der Ploeg
Snakemaster
Number of posts : 282
Age : 48
Location : The Netherlands
Points : 6324
Registration date : 2008-04-27
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Tue 10 Mar - 0:32 | |
| A week ago it was about 6 degrees celsius and cloudy weather. I hoped for a little sun, but it didn't come so I've found nothing. Yesterday I went out in the field again and the weather was much better. Some clouds, but the sun came thrue from time to time. It was about 9 degrees celsius. I've found 3 adders. Their body temperatures ranged from 17,4 to 19,8 degrees celsius. So close to the optimum. The snakes looked very well. They weren't skinny at all. Cold winters, like this season in Holland, are good for hibernating adders. They do not lose a lot of weight at such a low metabolism. I'm curious if all snakes we'll inspect comming weeks are better looking as former years too.  Cheers, Harold | |
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Graeme Skinner
Snakemaster
Number of posts : 466
Age : 63
Location : Yorkshire, England
Points : 6408
Registration date : 2009-02-19
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Tue 10 Mar - 2:37 | |
| Nice image Harold. This had been a nice cold winter in England so I hope the berus are in good condition this year. | |
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Miqe Erikzen
Snakecharmer
Number of posts : 204
Age : 58
Location : Knutby, Sweden
Points : 5979
Registration date : 2008-12-02
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Thu 19 Mar - 14:58 | |
| I found my first adders yesterday.. In a place just 750 meters from work, at a spot I´ve seen from my car along the way to work. Decided to take a look, but didn´t expect to actually find anything. Did find 3 V. berus in 20 minutes, 2 in the same spot and another one just 25 meters from the first ones. Joy and happiness!! Here´s a couple of pictures..     | |
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Peter van Issem
Serpent Chief
Number of posts : 707
Age : 57
Location : GERMANY
Points : 6574
Registration date : 2009-03-08
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Thu 19 Mar - 23:46 | |
| hello at all, now I have the time to wrote a little bit...I´m new in this forum, but not in this hobby. When I look at some post in this Forum, I found a lot of names the sound´s very familar for me.....
Good to see, that the vipers in England , Sweden and the Netherlands are out now. So, then next weekend I will go to look for the German berus. Maby we will have luck....Fingercrossing!
Two weeks ago, I found nothing! Bad weather...and the place where the live is mostly distroyd...
Greetings,
Peter
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Miqe Erikzen
Snakecharmer
Number of posts : 204
Age : 58
Location : Knutby, Sweden
Points : 5979
Registration date : 2008-12-02
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Fri 20 Mar - 14:08 | |
| Hi Peter!!
Good to have you here!! | |
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Al Hyde
Snakecharmer
Number of posts : 154
Age : 60
Location : Ash Vale UK
Points : 6074
Registration date : 2008-07-21
| | Subject: Re: Vipera berus 2009 Fri 20 Mar - 17:13 | |
| Welcome Peter  Two weeks ago I went out to my sites in grey cloudy cold weather and saw eight berus and two natrix. Earlier this week I returned on a glorious sunny day at about 13-14c and saw three berus , very odd | |
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